Jeremy & Me...

Now here's a little something that caught my (magpie) eye in today's Guardian G2 section, as well it might given the image the article is illustrated with, being by no means a million miles away from the familiar 'roadkill' subject/object matter as processed into numerous drawings over the past year...


Whilst the 'roadkill' diptych series of drawings seeks to promote no especial agenda or critically comment upon 'The Litter Problem' as raised in Mr Paxman's article, still some form of unspoken dialogue might occur between the work & the viewer if consideration is made of the source of such 'found' subject/object matter, the instances of which - discerningly chosen ('litter-picked', in a form of self-serving civic duty) from the wealth of discarded items of packaging available as encountered as a matter of course when- & wherever one might be walking - thus constitute the merest tip of a vast & all-too-visible (& ever-mounting) iceberg of evidence of generally anti-social public behaviour (which yet, of course, provides me with tangible grist to the creative mill...).

Interesting to note that Coca-Cola is the percentage 'market leader' in this issue, as I suspect it's the brand to have featured most often in the drawings, although this might have at least as much to do with the art-historical references the name readily provides as incidence of 'findings'.